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Age UK Training specialises in providing tailored training for health and social care professionals, organisations, managers, paid workers and volunteers, as well as for career changers and people who need to be able to access and use services, or who simply enjoy learning in later life.
Our health and social care training programmes and short courses offer progression routes through to nationally recognised qualifications. Participants in our training programmes can gain nationally recognised qualifications (NVQ) at level 2, level 3 and level 4, and key skills awards at level 1 and level 2.
Skills for Care Accolades
Age UK Training’s health and social care training includes training programmes for managers in the sector, which we deliver in-house in the workplace, or from our training centre in Ebbw Vale in Wales.
Our training programmes for managers include the modern skills diploma award, which we deliver from our training centre in Ebbw Vale in Wales, and the leadership and management for care services award, which we deliver from our training centre in Ebbw Vale. These programmes offer national vocational qualifications (NVQ) in health and social care at level 4, and in leadership and management for care services at level 4. The modern skills diploma award has government funding available for eligible participants.
We also deliver our first line management Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) award training programmes as in-house training and flexible training in England, Scotland and Wales.
Our modern management in the care sector training programme, which we deliver from our training centre in Ebbw Vale in Wales, enables participants to gain an NVQ at level 4 in leadership and management for care services.
We also enable participants to gain health and social care skills and qualifications through our range of more than 10 short courses for managers, which we can deliver as in-house training in the workplace, at open access venues across the UK, at selected residential venues in England and Wales, or at a flexible training venue convenient to the participants.
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Induction programmes for all care workers
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‘For a number of years I have commissioned training from Age UK Training and I will continue to do so, as the standard has always been excellent. Eileen, the trainer, always evaluates and reflects on how well the training went and whether changes need to be made, and discusses this with me.’
Age UK Training’s health and social care training includes care induction training programmes for all workers in the sector: the domiciliary care workers induction programme for workers entering domiciliary care settings, and residential care workers induction programme for workers entering residential care settings. We deliver both programmes from our training centres in Yorkshire.
We also enable participants to gain health and social care skills and qualifications through our range of more than 40 short courses for all care workers, which we can deliver as in-house training in the workplace, at open access venues across the UK, at selected residential venues in England and Wales, or at a flexible training venue convenient to the participants.
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Age UK Training tailors our responding to the personalisation agenda (Putting People First) training programme for professionals and organisations providing care to older people, to meet the development needs produced by the personalisation agenda’s transformation in health and adult social care services.
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Age UK Training’s health and social care training includes work preparation programmes for the sector, which we deliver from a number of our training centres in England and Wales. Many of our programmes have government funding available for eligible participants.
Participants can gain national vocational qualifications in health and social care through React, which we deliver from our training centre in Ebbw Vale in Wales, and gain health and social care key skills and qualifications through Skill Build, which we also deliver from our training centre in Ebbw Vale.
Participants can gain preparation for apprenticeship or work in health and social care through Kickstart, which we deliver from our training centre in the West Midlands, and through work-focused training, which we deliver from our training centres in the north Midlands.
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‘Age UK Training have always been able to meet the needs of our organisation, ensuring that the training programmes are relevant for our staff and volunteers. The staff are courteous and always willing to assist. The trainers have high standards and are very knowledgeable in their particular fields.’
Our health and social care training includes apprenticeships and vocational skills training for the sector, which we deliver from our training centres in England and Wales. Many of our programmes have government funding available for eligible participants.
Participants can gain national vocational qualifications in health and social care through young apprenticeships, student apprenticeships, apprenticeships and advanced apprenticeships, which we deliver from our training centres in Cumbria, Greater Manchester, London, the north Midlands, the north-west, the south-east, the West Midlands, and Yorkshire, and through modern apprenticeships, which we deliver from our training centre in Ebbw Vale in Wales.
Participants can also achieve national vocational qualifications in health and social care through Train to Gain, the tailored training programme for employers and managers, and their eligible employees and volunteers, as we deliver it through care organisations from our training centres in Cumbria, Greater Manchester, London, the north-east, the north Midlands, the north-west, the south-east, the West Midlands, and Yorkshire.
We also enable participants to gain health and social care skills and qualifications through Learndirect, the e-learning programme, which we deliver from our training centre in Cumbria and on our Computer Explorer training buses.
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Most downloads on this website are PDFs. We use this format to ensure that the document looks the same on everyone’s computer (website pages, by contrast, appear differently depending on how people have set their computer up).
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The process is quite straightforward and is free.
PDFs cannot be changed. If you need to be able to type into a downloaded document (for example, if we are offering a letter template that you need to put your name on) we will provide it as a Microsoft Word document rather than a PDF. You can then download it, type into it and save it to your computer.
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